Purchased a new HP Pavilion g7 laptop yesterday from Radio Shack. I just couldn't pass up on the price: $479.99.
Specs:
Intel Core i3-380M processor 2.53GHz
17.3" HD BrightView LED Display 1600x900
500GB HDD
4096MB (4GB) DDR3 SDRAM
WLAN & Bluetooth (Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01))
LightScribe DVD Optical Drive
Webcam
3 USB ports
1 HDMI port
The Broadcom driver was available, installable, and working 'out of the box.'
Installed Cheese and the webcam worked 'out of the box.'
The Wi-Fi on/off function button works 'out of the box.'
The LED brightness function button controls work 'out of the box.'
Sound worked 'out of the box.'
Dumped Windows 7 completely. Formatted the HDD with a 4GB swap, 15GB /root and 50GB /home, both ext4. Partitioning as follows:
sda1 swap (primary)
sda4 extended (remaining space on HDD)
sda5 /root
sda6 /home
sda7 (15GB for second Kubuntu /root)
sda8 (50GB for second Kubuntu /home)
sda9 (331.76GB for 'stuff')
Added the Medibuntu repository and installed the DVD and media codecs. Added the ppa:kubuntu-ppa and upgraded to KDE 4.6.4.
Live is good. 8)
Specs:
Intel Core i3-380M processor 2.53GHz
17.3" HD BrightView LED Display 1600x900
500GB HDD
4096MB (4GB) DDR3 SDRAM
WLAN & Bluetooth (Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01))
LightScribe DVD Optical Drive
Webcam
3 USB ports
1 HDMI port
The Broadcom driver was available, installable, and working 'out of the box.'
Installed Cheese and the webcam worked 'out of the box.'
The Wi-Fi on/off function button works 'out of the box.'
The LED brightness function button controls work 'out of the box.'
Sound worked 'out of the box.'
Dumped Windows 7 completely. Formatted the HDD with a 4GB swap, 15GB /root and 50GB /home, both ext4. Partitioning as follows:
sda1 swap (primary)
sda4 extended (remaining space on HDD)
sda5 /root
sda6 /home
sda7 (15GB for second Kubuntu /root)
sda8 (50GB for second Kubuntu /home)
sda9 (331.76GB for 'stuff')
Added the Medibuntu repository and installed the DVD and media codecs. Added the ppa:kubuntu-ppa and upgraded to KDE 4.6.4.
Live is good. 8)
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